Kurzweil's argument is necessarily twofold: it's not enough to argue that there are virtually no constraints on our capacity he must also convince readers that such developments are desirable. The word "unrecognizable" is not chosen lightly: wherever this is heading, it won't look like us. Humankind, it runs, is at the threshold of an epoch ("the singularity," a reference to the theoretical limitlessness of exponential expansion) that will see the merging of our biology with the staggering achievements of "GNR" (genetics, nanotechnology and robotics) to create a species of unrecognizably high intelligence, durability, comprehension, memory and so on. Elsewhere he has argued that eliminating fat intake can prevent cancer here, his quarry is the future of consciousness and intelligence. ) may be technology's most credibly hyperbolic optimist. Renowned inventor Kurzweil ( The Age of Spiritual Machines
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